HIV, Health & Development

Challenges in the Arab States

Nearly three decades into the AIDS epidemic, the number of new HIV infections has yet to decline. Over 34 million people around the world are living with HIV and AIDS — half of them women. The epidemic has cost more than 1.8 million lives in 2010, and in 2011 over 1.7 million people died of AIDS-related causes.More

Our Goals

UNDP focuses on supporting the creation of an enabling environment to prevent the spread of HIV on one hand, and to support the empowerment of People Living with HIV (PLWH) on the other hand.More

Raising awareness about HIV in the occupied Palestinian territories

Marking the UN AIDS Day, UN staff join the students of st.George's School in an awareness campaign on HIV/AIDS

The city of Fallujah, in Anbar Governorate, is home to approximately 700,000 people. Fallujah experienced some of the greatest violence and conflict in Iraq sinceMore

The Global Fund, a programme that UNDP implements in many developing countries, has immediate plans to scale up prevention, treatment and care services of HIV and AIDS in the occupied Palestinian territory. Photo: UNDP PAPP

Project & Initiatives

In the context of the initiative on the socio-economic empowerment of People Living with HIV (PLWH), the HIV Practice of the UNDP Regional Centre in Cairo (RCC) established a partnership with the famous radio station Saut Al Arab (which reaches out to 40% of the rural populations in the Arab world). more

Income generation for Algerian women living with HIV

Following a series of trainings for women living with HIV, UNDP in Algeria in partnership with local NGOs launched an initiative to help women infected or affected by HIV/AIDS to develop income-generating activities.